Interesting fraud, or How to get away from the water

Faced with a new kind of fraud using webmoney and bitcoin. Although, theoretically, a similar scheme can be used in other settlement systems in the network.

In the scheme there are 3 people:

1. cheater;
2. the one who is going to "throw";
3. fake face (on which all sins are hung).

A scammer finds and contacts a person (let's call it conditionally “Fake”) who wants to exchange wmz for real $ (this was my friend). Negotiates with him according to the standard scheme: “ You translate wmz with the protection code and comment” for the transaction ”; we meet, I give you $, and you give me the code . ” This person will continue to look like those who have deceived the victim.

At the same time, the scammer contacts the victim who wants to sell bitcoin for wmz. Allegedly, in order to reduce the risks of remaining deceived, he agrees to buy bitcoin for wmz according to the following scheme: “ I will translate wmz with a protection code; you transfer me 50% bitcoin; I give you the protection code; you transfer me the remaining 50% bitcoin . ”
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Then everything is simple:

1. The scammer wmz recognizes the victim's wallet and informs the person he is going to set up;
2. The framed person translates wmz with the protection code to the victim’s wallet;
3. The victim sees that wmz came with the protection code and transfers 50% bitcoin to the fraudster’s account;
4. The scammer disappears with bitcoin received. The victim does not receive a protection code and writes a claim to wmid for translating wmz with a protection code. The dummy goes at the appointed time and place, finds no one there, comes home and discovers his claim to his wmid in the wm arbitration.

In this situation, for the victim, the obvious fraudster is the one who transferred wmz to him and did not provide the protection code. And for the “dummy”, the one to whom he translated wmz (which also extorts the protection code, threatening reprisals through WebMoney arbitration).

So, the scammer got rid of one entity (he doesn’t need a WebMoney wallet at all), according to which wmid and so on could potentially be calculated / blocked. He additionally secured himself by confusing traces. Such a situation would hardly have become understandable to the victim and the “bogus”, if for some reason the victim had not forwarded the correspondence with the fraudster in wm keeper to the “bogus”, from which he somehow guessed a similar scheme. But even after the scheme has become clear to the “frontman”, it is highly unlikely that he will be able to convince the victim of his innocence and avoid the possible blocking of his wmid.

PS If possible, in the comments to the payment try to specify information than you can more reflect the essence of the transaction. And requests to indicate otherwise should lead to certain thoughts. Be careful and thank you for your attention.